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Africa_Slinger Senior Member Offline I love Slinging.org! Posts: 259 Johannesburg, South Africa Gender:	Monkey fist bola (pictures) May 8^th, 2008 at 9:44am Made 3 bola's a while ago, this was the last attempt and also the best. Each fist has 5 wraps and the handle is my own idea.
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Africa_Slinger Senior Member Offline I love Slinging.org! Posts: 259 Johannesburg, South Africa Gender:	Re: Monkey fist bola (pictures) Reply #1 - May 8^th, 2008 at 9:46am A closer shot
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Africa_Slinger Senior Member Offline I love Slinging.org! Posts: 259 Johannesburg, South Africa Gender:	Re: Monkey fist bola (pictures) Reply #2 - May 8^th, 2008 at 9:49am Close-up of one of the fists
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kuggur slingdog Ex Member	Re: Monkey fist bola (pictures) Reply #3 - May 8^th, 2008 at 10:18am Five fold, a very nice looking bola, what did you use as core in the fists?
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bigkahuna past-moderator Offline Posts: 3894 Delaware, USA Gender:	Re: Monkey fist bola (pictures) Reply #4 - May 8^th, 2008 at 10:57am Same question, what's the core made of??? Looks very effective though.
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Curious Aardvark Forum Moderation Offline Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 13965 Midlands England Gender:	Re: Monkey fist bola (pictures) Reply #5 - May 8^th, 2008 at 12:38pm does it work ? (yep you can tell I'm not a knotter lol)
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Re: Monkey fist bola (pictures)
Reply #6 - May 9^th, 2008 at 1:31am

The core is computer mouse balls and the whole thing ways 175gr.

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Posted by: curious_aardvark Posted on: Yesterday at 7:38pm
does it work ?
(yep you can tell I'm not a knotter lol)

Works very well. Had the first one I made from 5mm climbers utility rope and some ball bearings at the beach three weeks ago. It spreads very nice but found that one too heavy. Made the second one the same as this one but with 4 wraps and pawd it of to my director where he later that week proceded to put a dent in his wifes car.

So yes, I think it is usable. Do I think I will ever use it on a animal, very unlikely.

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Curious Aardvark Forum Moderation Offline Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 13965 Midlands England Gender:	Re: Monkey fist bola (pictures) Reply #7 - May 9^th, 2008 at 10:14am but you could stick some posts in the ground and see if you could wrap it round them :-) could be a fun competition :-)
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siguy Interfector Viris Spurii Offline si vis pacem para bellum Posts: 1714 connecticut Gender:	Re: Monkey fist bola (pictures) Reply #8 - May 9^th, 2008 at 5:41pm very tidy looking knots. good looking job on that bola
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Curious Aardvark Forum Moderation Offline Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 13965 Midlands England Gender:	Re: Monkey fist bola (pictures) Reply #9 - May 10^th, 2008 at 6:34am so how long are the cords between the handle and the balls ? and would you be willing to trade one for something ? pretty sure I haven't sent anything to africa yet :-)
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Africa_Slinger Senior Member Offline I love Slinging.org! Posts: 259 Johannesburg, South Africa Gender:	Re: Monkey fist bola (pictures) Reply #10 - May 12^th, 2008 at 2:26am Quote: Posted by: siguy Posted on: May 10th, 2008, 12:41am very tidy looking knots. good looking job on that bola Thanks, takes a while to make though. Coenie
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Re: Monkey fist bola (pictures)
Reply #11 - May 12^th, 2008 at 2:33am

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Posted by: curious_aardvark Posted on: May 10th, 2008, 1:34pm
so how long are the cords between the handle and the balls ?
and would you be willing to trade one for something ?
pretty sure I haven't sent anything to africa yet

The length of the cords are 1100mm (1.1m)

Sure I will be willing to trade. Let me know what you think it is worth. I could really do with some proper 440 mil spec paracord, can not find the stuff in SA.

And sorry for the late reply.

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Re: Monkey fist bola (pictures)
Reply #12 - May 12^th, 2008 at 6:18am

I'll have a look see for the cord - I have no idea what 440 mil spec is though. I tend to just buy 20 metre lengths of green stuff that says paracord on the packet :-)

Have a look on this website
[url]http://www.springfields.co.uk/[/url]

It's my local army surplus store - if they don't sell it I can always look elsewhere :-)

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Africa_Slinger Senior Member Offline I love Slinging.org! Posts: 259 Johannesburg, South Africa Gender:	Re: Monkey fist bola (pictures) Reply #13 - May 12^th, 2008 at 8:47am Sorry, my bad. It is 550 paracord. It has seven double strand braid in the inside and a nylon sleeve. See what you can find. If this is not possible I am open to other suggestions for a trade, you decide. Coenie
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Africa_Slinger Senior Member Offline I love Slinging.org! Posts: 259 Johannesburg, South Africa Gender:	Re: Monkey fist bola (pictures) Reply #14 - May 12^th, 2008 at 8:49am Just found this http://www.survival-school.org/Default.aspx?tabid=246&txtSearch=paracord&List=1&...
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